Dz (digraph)

Dz generally represents /d͡z/ in Latin alphabets, including Hungarian, Kashubian, Latvian, Lithuanian, Polish, Slovak, and romanized Macedonian.

It is called dzé (IPA: [d͡zeː]) as a letter of the alphabet, where it represents the voiced alveolar affricate phoneme /dz/.

In several verbs ending in -dzik (approximately fifty), there is a free alternation with -zik, e.g. csókolódzik or csókolózik, lopódzik or lopózik.

In some other verbs, there is a difference in meaning: levelez(ik) "to correspond", but leveledzik "to produce leaves".

Example words with this phoneme include: The digraph may never be divided by hyphenation: However, when d and z come from different morphemes, they are treated as separate letters, and must be divided by hyphenation: In both cases od- (from) and nad- (above) are a prefix to the stems zem (earth) and zvuk (sound).

It is one of the rare characters that has separate glyphs for each of its uppercase, title case, and lowercase forms.

The single-character versions are designed for compatibility with Yugoslav encodings supporting Romanization of Macedonian, where this digraph corresponds to the Cyrillic letter Ѕ.